A VERY RARE TRANSLUCENT PALE GREENISH-WHITE GLASS TWO-HANDLED HEXAGONAL CUP

MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY

Details

A VERY RARE TRANSLUCENT PALE GREENISH-WHITE GLASS TWO-HANDLED HEXAGONAL CUP
MING DYNASTY, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
Made in imitation of jade, the facetted body moulded on each side with a Shou character flanked by foliate motifs, with a pair of dragon loop handles, raised on a similarly facetted foot with cylindrical inner walls, the semi-translucent glass with some crizzling and some soil encrustation
4¾ in. (12 cm.) across handles

Provenance

The Cunliffe Collection, GL2

Literature

C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1995, no. 16

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Lot Essay

Another imitation jade glass cup, with similar dragon-form handles, but of square form with facetted corners, is illustrated by S. Kwan, Early Chinese Glass, The Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001, no. 203.

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